Please note: the stories House of Solitude and Canfield Park were previously published as an e-book set in Unfinished Business: Discipline Delayed, and are the same stories.OUCH: A Spanking Romance Anthology, offers four vintage stories from Lynn Carlyle. In House of Solitude, a troubled young woman travels with her older sister to a remote tourist getaway on the Kansas plains. They do not know who their rugged and handsome host is in addition to the owner of their prairie retreat. But when the younger sister confesses to her host that she has difficulties with misjudgment and a lack of maturity, and finds out that they share agreement that sometimes a sizzling bottom can bring about behavior modification, this little vacation on the prairie yields some unexpected life changes.In Canfield Park, a southern songwriter lives a secure and secluded life in the comfortable lakeside home she inherited from her parents. She also harbors unresolved and unrequited feelings for an old friend with whom she would love to find the courage to confess her kinky desires to. Now that old friend has returned home from the military, and with a little too much wine one evening, she discloses her previously suppressed wishes to him. But will he be willing to follow through and see to it that she lives out her fantasy?In Alternative Sentencing, you meet Lyle Baxter, a successful managing partner of a Texas investment firm. He does not know that one of his subordinates, Misty, a fetching young woman, harbors a secret wish: she constantly fantasizes about being spanked by her handsome boss. This is kept secret until she and a couple of her coworkers accidentally record a conversation in which they plot to skim some money from the firm for their personal use. When confronted by their boss, one of them gets a little too mouthy, persuading the exasperated Lyle to go ahead and give them exactly what Misty had secretly craved for quite some time.In Waiting To Tell Him, a young wife decides that she is tired of dealing with the guilt over a one night stand in her past. One night she walks into a convenience store and finds herself hiding from the sight of the high school classmate with whom she had conducted the dalliance. Unnerved by the incident, she finally confesses to her husband, a former school administrator who had never disposed of his office paddle. Both of them agree that it's time for the customized board to see daylight. But what long-term effects could it have on their marriage?